The most Popular Music this Decade?

Why the hell do people like you insist upon placing largely meaningless labels on whatever you can?

Were the 90's the "alternative" generation? I guess nobody did anything else other than alt/indie music then. Not much of an "alternative", huh?

Oh, right. The 80s were the "New Wave" generation, except that nobody calls it that anymore; the term has left the vernacular. Now 80's music is "80s music", a seemingly all-inclusive title that is anything but.

Give it a fucking rest. If future generations are going to look back upon this decade's music and assign it any title at all, I sincerely hope they choose to call it "the time music went to complete shit and people forgot what the fuck melody is."

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well my point is that when we consider the "popular" opinion, we only have to look so far as the most highly purchased albums of the past several years to understand what the largest trends were and, subsequently, what will most likely define this decade. Statistically, emo-rock, rap, R&B and country-crossovers will make the largest showing.

My personal opinion that none of this music actually constitutes "music," in its more aesthetic sense, prompts me to call it "shit". If the "popular" music charts were more representative of a widened demographic, I'd be far more forgiving.

I don't blame the public entirely, since record labels focus advertising and airplay toward a select few artists and people can't easily enjoy and purchase what they don't know exists. But it's this same stranglehold on the industry-at-large that will ultimately define what the 00's were all about. This definition will not be a representation of what people truly liked, but rather, what the masses were told to like, pretty much by virtue of all other options being denied adequate forums.

Oh, there are and always will be high quality songs which defy the most common precepts of each respective era - I understand some magnificent work is emerging from Scandinavia lately; it's not my type of sound but I concede its brilliance - but these are the exceptions which serve to define the rule: most people are lazy and will accept whatever drivel they're given.

I trust that this is the same silent majority that also figures all politicians are crooked so they'll just vote for the one with the best hair.

It is my overall resentment over the recording industry's smug grip on what becomes popular that causes me to become upset whenever someone tries to pin a musical label on any era. Doing so is conceding victory to those scumbags by omitting all the other excellent stuff that happened as well.

There's nowhere I can't reach.